Most robotics companies are trying to perfect manipulation and locomotion before they deploy. That forces them to overcome a brutal reliability cliff before they can scale. We believe that’s a strategic error. Start with perception. Collapse deployment cost. Capture territory. Enable co-embodiment.

Today, it takes a few minutes to publish a new app or website online. People who buy a phone hardware expect it to run various software programs solving different tasks each. We often take for granted the complexity behind mobile operating systems that makes the flow of software between the developers and end users seamless. This is not the case for robotics.

Historically, robots were highly specialized pieces of equipment, required specialists to install and calibrate, and often programmed for a single task. Enter 2026, the hardware costs are going down, for some manufacturers starting as low as 1000 USD. Thousands of startups are building software for these robots but most of them hit a brick wall when it comes to distributing, maintaining and upgrading.

Why robots in retail?

Auki found a unique opportunity with Cactus and supermarkets that allows the deployment of thousands of robots within the next couple of years. A simple "camera on the wheels" robot is low-cost and low-risk to deploy, yet it provides high value by capturing 24/7 what the store actually looks like. Supermarkets also provide a unique distribution pipeline because of the central warehouses and the trucks going back and forth to the stores every day. So when it comes to replacing and repairing robots, setting up a workshop near one of these warehouses can provide under 24-hour support for hundreds of locations.

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More tasks for the same robot

Turns out it's not only the supermarket managers and owners that want to have eyes in the store. Brand owners, like Coca Cola, want to know what their designated section looks like in the store and how closely it matches the desired specification. Currently this job is done by a human, driving from one store to another and taking pictures and videos of the Coca Cola isles. Instead a much lower cost solution is to rent a robot that's already in the store, ask it to drive up to the Coca Cola isle and capture its current state.

This is exactly what CTRL+R specializes in.

Partnership with CTRL+R

CTRL+R is making robot operations easy. They provide a unified interface for full robotic control, designed to be intuitive for first-time operators, yet powerful and customizable for advanced robotics teams managing diverse fleets.

For robotics teams: CTRL+R is a one-stop shop to operate, manage, and monitor the entire robot fleet. No more building in-house software or switching between softwares - CTRL+R has everything baked in to help your fleet scale as the company grows.

For retail, construction, and more: CTRL+R gives teams real-time visibility into physical operations, helping them monitor site conditions, verify task execution, and extract data-driven insights from anywhere.

Together we are looking to provide a platform for remote specialists to visit and inspect hundreds of locations per day without the need to spend hours and hours to drive there.

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アウキ・ラボについて

Aukiはポーズメッシュという地球上、そしてその先の1000億の人々、デバイス、AIのための分散型機械認識ネットワークを構築しています。ポーズメッシュは、機械やAIが物理的世界を理解するために使用可能な、外部的かつ協調的な空間感覚です。

私たちの使命は、人々の相互認知能力、つまり私たちが互いに、そしてAIとともに考え、経験し、問題を解決する能力を向上させることです。人間の能力を拡大させる最も良い方法は、他者と協力することです。私たちは、意識を拡張するテクノロジーを構築し、コミュニケーションの摩擦を減らし、心の橋渡しをします。

ポーズメッシュについて

ポーズメッシュは、分散型で、ブロックチェーンベースの空間コンピューティングネットワークを動かすオープンソースのプロトコルです。

ポーズメッシュは、空間コンピューティングが協調的でプライバシーを保護する未来をもたらすよう設計されています。いかなる組織の監視能力も制限し、空間のプライベートな地図の自己所有権を奨励します。

分散化はまた、特に低レイテンシが重要な共同ARセッションにおいて、競争優位性を有します。ポスメッシュは分散化運動の次のステップであり、成長するテック大手のパワーに対抗するものです。

アウキ・ラボはポスメッシュにより、ポーズメッシュのソフトウェア・インフラの開発を託されました。